Research on the Knowledge Map and Application Prospect of Virtual Environment in Teaching

Information technology has deeply reshaped the educational ecology, and the virtual environment has become an innovative engine for teaching reconstruction and personalized learning by virtue of its immersion and interaction characteristics. Based on Cite Space, this paper makes a systematic analysis of 1269 articles in CNKI from 2004 to 2024, and combs the development of virtual environment teaching application in China through author co-occurrence, keyword clustering and time zone evolution map. The results show that: research on the development of evolutionary coupling technology, the number of publications is divided into three stages: initial exploration period, technical adjustment period and deepening integration period; the core author group is emerging, dominated by normal universities and eastern universities, but the cross-institutional collaboration network is loose; The research topic expands from technical support to teaching practice. Future research needs to deepen the cross-integration of educational neuroscience, AI technology and cognitive psychology, and build a multi-level long-term evaluation framework to provide theoretical and practical support for the digital transformation of education.